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    Strange Boarders on Desktop Icons...

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by SirWells, Feb 27, 2008.

  1. SirWells

    SirWells Notebook Consultant

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    Whenever I click my desktop, the "Macintosh HD" icon will have this black border surrounding the icon of the hard drive and text below it. This just started. I rebooted (again, coming from Windows this is usually a solution) but it's still there. Any ways to stop the border. This is different from having the icon selected, in fact, it can be highlighted (selected) and still have this border.
     
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    Budding Notebook Virtuoso

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    Could it be that you have a colour label associated with the icon? Right click on it and click on the little X under Label.
     
    Budding, Feb 27, 2008
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    Arquis Kojima Worshiper

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    is there a label colour on it? right click it and check.
     
    Arquis, Feb 27, 2008
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    Post a screenshot if it doesn't seem to have a label colour.
     
    Robgunn, Feb 27, 2008
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  5. SirWells

    SirWells Notebook Consultant

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    Turns out I pressed Command + F5 and turned on the speech option. I had my machine on mute, so I didn't hear my Mac reading me everything on my screen. The black box would just highlight the area or window on the screen to be read. I was trying the hard refresh, Control + F5, as you would on Windows, but this shortcut didn't translate to Mac.

    Thanks for the suggestions though!
     
    SirWells, Feb 28, 2008
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    It's probably because you spelled "borders" wrong.
     
    tatsumi82, Feb 28, 2008
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  7. SirWells

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    I realized I misspelled it but was unable to change the original thread's title. I'm sure that was the reason for my problem, thanks...
     
    SirWells, Feb 28, 2008
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